AFP, KABUL: Afghanistan is losing a multi-billion dollar war on drugs as it combats terrorism, a minister warned, denouncing a lack of political will and dwindling foreign aid to fight narcotics. The comments from Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, deputy minister of interior for counter-narcotics, come after the…

AFP, SCHIPHOL, Netherlands: The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders opened in his absence Monday, in a case that will test the boundaries of free expression ahead of parliamentary polls next year. Wilders’s lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops read out a statement from his client at the…

AFP, REYKJAVIK: Iceland was gearing up Sunday for tough horsetrading over its next government after the anti-establishment Pirate Party and its allies gained ground against the ruling centre-right in a vote triggered by the Panama Papers scandal.Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson announced his…

AFP, BEIRUT: Lebanon's parliament on Monday elected former general Michel Aoun president, ending a vacuum and political stalemate of more than two years. Live footage from the vote count in the country's parliament showed that Aoun had received more than the 50 percent-plus-one majority of 65…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry has rejected accusations from the United States that it has been shipping arms to the Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen, according to media reports on Monday. A US admiral said on Thursday that warships from the US Navy and allied nations had intercepted four weapons…

AFP, NORCIA: Italian authorities said Monday they were taking care of more than 15,000 people left homeless by the country’s most powerful earthquake…